Marvel Bringing Luke Cage, Iron Man & More To Netflix

Netflix continues to flex its original programming muscle announcing a historic deal with Disney and Marvel to develop original series surrounding four of their marquis heroes, Luke Cage, Iron Man, Dare Devil and Jessica Jones.

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) today announced an unprecedented deal for Marvel TV to bring multiple original series of live-action adventures of four of Marvel’s most popular characters exclusively to the world’s leading Internet TV Network beginning in 2015.

Led by a series focused on “Daredevil,” followed by “Jessica Jones,” “Iron Fist” and “Luke Cage,” the epic will unfold over multiple years of original programming, taking Netflix members deep into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell’s Kitchen, New York. Netflix has committed to a minimum of four, thirteen episodes series and a culminating Marvel’s “The Defenders” mini-series event that reimagines a dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters.

Produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Television Studios, this groundbreaking deal is Marvel’s most ambitious foray yet into live-action TV storytelling.

There has been discussion over the years about bringing characters like Luke Cage to the big screen, but this might be the intermediate step to satiate comic book fans until that can happen.